Natural hazards · Price

Price, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Price comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 14 claims here since 1978.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Price?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Price to be higher than in 33% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding51%Cold waves26%Lightning5%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Price faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Inland flooding

51% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

26% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lightning

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong wind

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Price flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Price, from FEMA’s records.

14paid claims since 1978

$107Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Irene: 1 claim, $13K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Price isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Monroe County.

Disasters that hit Price

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Monroe County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Price itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into PriceDeclared for Monroe County only

Monroe County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

Around Price

Price and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Barrettmostly inland floodingModerate

Pricemostly inland floodingLow

Paradisemostly inland floodingLow

Stroudmostly inland floodingLow

Middle Smithfieldmostly inland floodingLow

Portermostly inland floodingVery low

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Price covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Price’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Price. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Price total about $984K a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); OpenFEMA: NFIP redacted claims, multiple-loss properties, community status book and residential penetration rates, housing assistance (owners and renters), public assistance funded projects, hazard mitigation properties and disaster declarations. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.